The Princess and the Paupers

Chapter 344

Martha kept her head down, not daring to look at Arabella, silently tending to Serena.

“How are your grandparents holding up lately?” Hans asked after serving Arabella some food, shifting his focus to his parents.

He’s been either busy with the company or rushing home to keep his sister company. It’s been a week since he got back, but he hadn’t checked on his grandparents yet.

“Your Grandma woke up once on the day of the award ceremony but then fell into a coma again,” Louisa said with a heavy heart. “God knows when she’ll pull through.”

“What caused it?” Arabella asked coolly.

She heard their health wasn’t great, just like her other grandparents, who were getting on in years, but she never asked for specifics.

“Your grandparents both love to stay active. A month ago, they went mountain climbing. Grandma took a tumble, and Grandpa fell down a dozen steps trying to catch her. They both blacked out and were in a deep coma by the time they were rushed to the hospital.”

picture the scene as if it had

multiple broken bones. Grandpa’s condition was even worse. He broke several bones while protecting her. Fluid accumulated in his feft chest cavity, and there was intracranial

examination, and Grandma suffered acute respiratory failure. It scared the living daylights

out of us.”

condition with internal bleeding that couldn’t be operated on, so they were transferred

woken up twice, but Greandpa hasn’t woken up at all.”

host of complications. The doctors say the intracranial hemorrhage has caused extensive damage to

sounded dire–a step away from the

issues, from respiratory failure, shock, respiratory tract infection, anemia, and electrolyte imbalance. Each day brings a new set of challenges. We

Hope Hospital?”

“No.”

hospital in Summerfield, known especially for treating heart diseases, private hospitals provided